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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) It signifies a change in his father's finances.
(b) They plan to send him to England to study.
(c) His father has converted to Protestantism.
(d) From then on he will be home schooled.

2. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?
(a) the bully Wells
(b) Tusker Boyle
(c) Father Dolan
(d) Father Arnall

3. What does Stephen like in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book?
(a) nice sentences
(b) funny illustrations
(c) large print
(d) margin notes he wrote

4. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) In the thick of the action
(b) on the fringes of his line
(c) on the bench
(d) next to the prefect

5. After what does Stephen model his poem titles in his notebook?
(a) odes by Keats
(b) the collected poems of Lord Byron
(c) the Canterbury Tales
(d) newspaper headlines

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Stephen have over the reversal of his family's fortunes?

2. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?

3. After the punishment, what are Flemming and Stephen told to do?

4. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?

5. Who gets into an argument during Christmas dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Tell how Stephen begins to look at his country in a different way.

2. Detail Stephen's experience at acting in a play at school.

3. Describe the unjust punishment Father Dolan gives Stephen.

4. What is the evidence of stress on the family's having to move again?

5. How does Stephen define art to Lynch?

6. What was in the verses Stephen wrote about the girl on the tram?

7. Show how Stephen begins to weaken in his devotion to God.

8. Detail the paradox of Stephen's past and present in regard to the church.

9. How does Stephen connect his family name with the new course of his life?

10. What are some of the specifics Stephen is troubled by from his past life?

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